- Location(s): Derbyshire
- Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Nineteenth Century
It is 1863. ELIZABETH ‘BESSIE’ GOODWIN, a young woman of conscience and spirit, lives with her grandfather, CAPTAIN FRANCIS GOODWIN, at Wigwell Grange in Derbyshire. In August Bessie is stabbed to death by GEORGE TOWNLEY, to whom she had...
Forgiveness- A sensation novel-The life and murder of Bessie Caroline Goodwin
- Location(s): Derbyshire
- Genre(s): Historical, Crime
- Era(s): Victorian
Bessie Goodwin, a young woman of conscience and spirit, lives with her manipulative grandfather, Captain Francis Goodwin, at Wigwell Grange, near Wirksworth. In August of 1863 she is brutally murdered by George Townley, to whom she had previously been...
- Location(s): Armenia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): Earlier 20th Century
In 1915 Vahan Kenderian is living a life of privilege as the youngest son of a wealthy Armenian family in Turkey. This secure world is shattered when some family members are whisked away while others are murdered before his...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 18th century
A fast paced story of resilience against impossible odds, of courage and of love, set in 1711 on a dangerous voyage to a new life in Java. It is August 1711 and Annie Jansz is sailing from Zeeland with...
- Location(s): Alabama
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): 1960s
Forrest Gump paints a portrait of contemporary Alabama from the point of view of an idiot savant. Technically, Forrest Gump does not take place wholly in Alabama. In fact, much of the time Forrest isn’t in Alabama at all....
- Location(s): Madrid
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1870s
Galdos’s four-part Fortunata and Jacinta (1886-7), the masterpiece among his almost 80 novels, tells the turbulent story of two women, their husbands and their lovers, set against the intricate web of dynastic alliances and class contrasts of Madrid in...
- Location(s): Nashville
- Genre(s): Humour, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Two guitars. Two wild women. One crazy honky tonking night in Georgia. The Ace is high and the Joker is always wild. When Texas meets Tennessee, the end result spells T.R.O.U.B.L.E In Story Two of The Fortune Series, we...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
The first in the brilliant new Pentecost and Parker series, FORTUNE FAVOURS THE DEAD is a hugely entertaining murder mystery set in 1940s New York City. New York, 1946. Lillian Pentecost is the most successful private detective in the...
- Location(s): Derbyshire
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Regency (19th century)
As a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, Benedict Frost had the respect of every man on board—and the adoration of the women in every port. When injury ends his naval career, the silver-tongued libertine can hardly stomach the boredom....
Fortune’s Favourites (Masters of Rome – 3)
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): BC
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